WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ST. LOUIS - Jurors on Wednesday found a man who paid to have children sexually abused in the Philippines guilty of all the charges that he faced.
Sanel Smajlovic, 37, of St. Louis County, was found guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis of four counts of attempted sexual exploitation of children, two counts of receiving child pornography and two counts of soliciting child pornography for conduct that occurred between 2017 and 2019.
In closing arguments Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jillian Anderson said Smajlovic "has a voracious appetite for the sexual abuse of young children." Smajlovi...